skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a fantastic post on how to obtain an E3 visa: http://www.geoffmcqueen.com/2011/09/28/e-3-visa-for-australi.... It's a founder-orientated post but certainly covers a few key points.

I moved to SF 3 months ago from Sydney and have found the place very cheap to live. SF is viewed as very expensive by most Americans, however, it's got nothing on Sydney or Melbourne. I.e. my currently monthly rent is $845 p.m. for a room in Dogpatch.
> Assumptions make a...

"Head of Product" sounds like a product manager, it doesn't even sound like an engineer at all - this makes it even less surprising that these pathetic security holes existed.

Just to be clear, that means my assumptions you lambasted were generous. Not folly.
Indeed. A GPS clock accurate to 50ns is around $25 on eBay.
All I can say to that is thank Christ it's not 1996 anymore.
This is a severe lack of customer service. The least that can be done is a quick shutdown of the site until there's a good fix, an email to all customers (since legally they have to disclose the breach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_la...), and a thanks out to whomever reported the issue.

If you make a mistake, own up to it. Honesty is the best key to building a business, and I'm sure they've at least lost the HN trust for any product in the future.
Blindly turning off KeepAlive isn't a recipe for awesomeness.

KeepAlive is a trade for memory/cpu time; on if you want to speed up in exchange for memory, off if you want to conserve memory and pay the cost of initializing new conections.

If you're doing anything like loading a web page with more than a few images, KeepAlive will likely improve connection time as http requests things serially, and you'll have a speed up by re-using the same connection.

Protip: run apache's mpm-worker with keepalive on and save memory and speed up your site.
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Legally you must disclose any sort of security breach to your users: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_la...
I don't drive, though I completely understand the need for physical interface controls for common used tasks and in a car that’s a fair few. Another way of looking at it is if touch screens in cars were that good then Kitt out of Knight Rider would of had one. I believe head-up displays have potential in cars in many interface area's, imagine a fighter jet with touch screen interfaces says a lot.

I still moan the loss of the jog-wheel on the blackberry devices, dammed useful for scrolling down long lists in a controlled way without obscuring the screen or having to play with a trackball designed for mice!
Another argument of interface were dials win over touch interfaces would perhaps be DJ mixers. Touch interfaces will only get better, but will never replace the tactile and visual static presence of a actual knob/button for most. I want my phone which has a button you press to answer calls, not a virtual one.
Couldn't agree more. There is a silver lining here is thick. Leverage it and win.
As a young internet user I would like to know what this utopia was like ..
Interesting, but we run into the same issues as before. We are either storing locally (backups are good, but local storage doesn't have quite as much redundancy as a data center), or taking infeasible amounts of time to upload to a remote backup.

Ideally, we would be able to ship BluRays to a data center (USPS has terrible latency, but great bandwidth!), where they would load them into their servers. If anything happend to the local copies, we could either have them ship us back a hard drive or BluRays, or download the lost files (downstream is much faster for us, and because we are theoretically only downloading a subset of what we backed up, direct downloads are feasible).

The issue I run in to in my thought experiments is that a data center doesn't necessarily want to physically handle data shipped to them or create recovery media to ship back.

Actually, all that is really needed is a secure place to archive the BluRays. A way to view and download backed up files is a nice-to-have, but not required.
Well to be fair, people who gave their real AWS keys also acted as, if not more, foolishly than the devs.

From amazon:
"For your protection, you should never share your secret access keys with anyone. In addition, industry best practice recommends frequent key rotation.

Learn more about Access Keys"

USE IAM USERS
Do you mean the Feminist meaning of patriarchy?(from wikipedia) ""The patriarchal construction of the difference between masculinity and femininity is the political difference between freedom and subjection."[27] In feminist theory the concept of patriarchy often includes all the social mechanisms that reproduce and exert male dominance over women."

Patriarchy Feminist theory basically mean women are victims, man have power over woman and are conspiring (conscious or unconscious) oppressors. It is a very toxic and sexist theory, it ignores mens issues and it's also an Apex fallacy. Just because the majority of people at the top are male it does not mean they represent the majority of man. Did you know that in USA women hold the majority of the vote?

However I agree that people should not be forced in to gender roles and maybe that is what you meant when you wrote Patriarchy.

>metaphorically patted on the head by men

The majority of men (including traditionalists) don't treat women like dogs. Traditionalist men even believe in sacrificing their lives to save womens lives. A lot of modern men also believe in that sacrifice.
This is a bad idea. Not only is it against Southwest policy, it also pisses off people like myself who actually go and check-in "exactly" 24 hours before and end up with a "B-7" boarding pass!!!!!

Clearly, Southwest has their reasons for assigning boarding priority 0-24hrs before flight on a first-come-first-serve basis, or else they would just assign priority during payment (early-bird checkin $10 notwithstanding).

Possible Reasons:
1) Loyal customers can get a "one-up" on new fliers or people who don't really care when they board and where they sit.
2) People who don't change flights within 24 hrs of takeoff can also take advantage of this --the rest might be "penalized" in this model.

Sites like "checkintomyflight.com" break apart the aformentioned model.

But, this is hacker news. So, congrats on building this service.
Xkcd style graphs in Matlab
I don't want my classified ads republished because I've chosen to publish the advertisement in places that target specific types of people.

It's incredibly naive to assume you know best.

We have our job ads republished by job sites with user bases that are far outside what we're interested in, and it results in a massive waste of our time in filtering those candidates.
Considering that it has enough power to continue data communications with Earth till 2025, it should be well into the heliosphere. If it keeps going at its current speed of 17km/s, it should reach the nearest star by the year 75,787.
Could anyone explain to me why there's such a dramatic change in the incidence of extra-solar high energy cosmic rays or the incidence of solar particles? Without reading this article, I would have guessed that those graphs should've tailed off "smoothly" as distance from the sun increases, but what we're seeing instead is more of a "phase change". What about the underlying physics at a certain distance causes this very discontinuos behavior, and why this distance specifically? I imagine this cutoff distance must be a function of properties of our sun like luminosity, magnetic field strength, etc.
Tasteful, elequent and respectfuly well designed tribute. I'm sure even the late great Steve Jobs would of approved.
I'd love an iOS home screen icon.

Since iOS allowed saving web pages as icons on the home screen, I've had a link to Hacker News on the first page of apps on my iPhone. iOS looks for an image in a specific location and will use that as the icon for the bookmark. If it can't find one, it'll take a screenshot of the home page.

Since updating to iOS 6, my home screen bookmark icon for Hacker News has started changing to the icons for websites that HN links to. For example, my icon currently is a purple 'Slate' logo after reading a story at Slate.com. The only way to change this is to recreate the bookmark until this happens again.

It'd be great if we could get a HN icon that iOS would use instead of failing to the default and now changing often.

Implementing this is as easy as placing specifically named and sized images in the root directory of the domain.

Specific naming and sizes can be found here:
http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-create-ios-device-home-screen...
According to timestamps, it took ~5 minutes for you to realize your mistake. It may be worth waiting those five minutes before posting, in the future.
What Sushi And Programming Have In Common
GLBSE has been closed (Global Bitcoin Stock Exchange)
Just read this: http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
In most contexts. But it's used frequently in "infrared light" too. Watts include radiation across the entire EM spectrum, from radio up to gamma rays, while lumens are normalized to human perception.

You basically take the number of watts at each wavelength and multiply it by a factor that represents the eye's sensitivity at that wavelength. So 1 watt of IR is zero lumens, and 1 watt of blue light is fewer than 1 watt of yellow.

Take a look at the spectral distribution of daylight [1]. You'll notice the area under the curve in IR is pretty similar to the amount of visible light.

If the IR reflectivity of a comet were high and the visible were low (relative to the moon), knowing that they were reflecting about the same wattage wouldn't tell you much about relative brightness.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Solar_Sp...
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Honestly, this isn't even a matter of engineering.

I don't know the rails solution, but a quick-and-dirty solution in other frameworks is to use a decorator on your controller/views that does something like:

if request.session.userId == action.userId:
pass
else:
return SecurityExceptionResult

The example above is like 10 mins to code and put under test once you fill it in with the necessary stuff- You're probably going to want to log would-be security issues and gracefully handle the error.

With that said, user-identity does not belong in a URL. If you just did /user/edit (we assume all operations are performed on the logged in user) and then moved your security validation down a level to verify that session.userId == model.record.userId you'd be much better off.
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Backblaze should provide an option for you to ship them a hdd or blu ray disk. They can store those however you want but if/when you need it you can restore files over the Internet or they can ship you physical media.

Probably not cost effective for them but that's what you're looking for, I think.
I didn't have an issue with "liking" businesses until Facebook decided to let the highest bidder influence how users' likes are presented to their friends.

One issue I have with it is that promoted content makes no attempt at being valuable to users at all. I get endless reminders that so-and-so "likes" Wal-Mart or Amazon, but nothing about businesses I've never heard of. It's the opposite of being friendly to the tenuous, fledgling businesses for whom Facebook can be so helpful. People do their best to be interesting and to promote businesses they love that their friends might want to learn about. They don't endlessly shill brands that all of their friends already know about. Promoted content is a way for big boring brands to muscle their way in, through sheer advertising dollars, into a medium that naturally favors novelty and underdogs. Also, since companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon use their Facebook pages to direct advertising to users, promoted content is advertising advertising. Ads for ads. I don't know if I can articulate a reason why advertising for advertising makes me feel like a line of absurdity has been crossed (or a shark has been jumped) but it doesn't feel right.

Another thing that bothers me is that they use my friends' names. My friend may truly like Wal-Mart, but is she okay with her name being used to suggest a page to me over and over again in the hopes that the fifth or tenth or twentieth time I see it, I might relent and click "like?" I'm not cool with Facebook using my name that way. If Facebook wants to suggest one of my likes to a friend of mine, because Facebook believes that friend is likely to be interested, that's great. That makes me actually feel kind of good about Facebook having so much data about us. If Facebook wants to nag my friend to check out a page because that advertiser is paying Facebook to nag him, well, maybe that's the price of using Facebook, but please don't use my name. I'm sure the TOS says they can, but common courtesy should apply. Perhaps it is public information that you support a particular candidate in the presidential election, but it would be out of line for me to send hundreds of emails to HN users saying, "THOMAS H. PTACEK THINKS YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR MITT HUSSEIN JOHNSON." The opinion might be yours, but the obnoxious style wouldn't be, so it wouldn't be fair to invoke your name.
> we're not a company. we're two nerds.

Oh, so if you get sued for mishandling personal data or PII it'll be your personal responsibility rather than a company's?
That's a subset of what we're trying to do with The OpenPhoto Project. http://theopenphotoproject.org
Time-twisting test stuck in limbo
Wouldnt it be possible that the great difference is due to the fact that the first article was published in july and most of the HN people interested in the service already signed up that time?
Mannnnnnn, this exploit is SO 4 hours ago... ;D
28yr old self taught rocket engineer attempting land speed record
Worries Over Defense Department Money for Hackerspaces
Hmm. Perhaps what I should learn is to be less Canadian and not lead with an apology.
I'd try a couple pages and see how it goes. Adding in Bootstrap, Foundation, or Skeleton is typically just a matter of adding some HTML wrapper divs and CSS classes, assuming your starting point is a relatively simple DOM structure and CSS composition.
Agreed. Although the same could be said for any skill worth mastering.
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Dinner is served and you're invited, sorta.
Official UK government attempt at censorship
Pierre Fournier does a super smooth rendering of all the suites... he's like a French machine, technically perfect & soulful interpretation. especially the 6th preludium is a joy to hear as he climbs up the stairway.

yeah, Casals is the man. don't like rostropovich rendition IMHO.

currently playing those Suites on a Carbon Fiber Luis & Clark instrument - luisandclark.com
Well then you might like to know that HN used to be constantly positive when new projects were released here. And were always constructively critical with the critics writing directly to the author with an intent to help.

So when jetcom says HN has become cynical, it's really true.
Astrogator.
What we've found is that there are 2 mindsets: building and breaking. When you're building a product it's super hard to switch to the breaking mindset of security, simply because mental context switching is expensive and mentally exhausting. The most important thing is to force yourself into that mode before posting anything publicly. If you don't have the security experience, have a friend or service (like ours) look it over. Data is one of the most important assets to your company (or project), and any sort of disclosure can shut you down permanently.
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It feels like it was just a few months ago... well, it was, but a year?!
hi. i have now fixed all unicode issues, except for users that have unicode chars in their username. they are not able to vote due to me storing their username in hstore, which only accepts strings for keys.

because of this, i have cut down on the list of chars available to use in usernames.

see this post for bug reporting: http://www.tagxt.com/post/11

thanks!
http://www.southwest.com/html/customer-service/faqs.html?top...

Southwest Airlines automatically reserves a boarding pass for A-List Members beginning 36 hours prior to scheduled departure of the Member's confirmed Southwest Airlines flight.
> Comparing GM, Ford, and Chrysler all going bankrupt simultaneously

GM was the only problem because Ford wasn't in trouble and Chrysler was (and still is) negligible.

> auto industry is highly concentrated in a single geographic area

Most "US made cars" are not made in Michigan.... "In 2011 , the Detroit Region produced 1.56 million vehicles, accounting for nearly 82% of Michigan's motor vehicle production, over 18% of the United State's motor vehicle production, and nearly 12% of North America's motor vehicle production. Currently more than 151,000 metro Detroiters work in the automotive and auto-related industries." http://www.detroitchamber.com/component/content/article/14-a...

US auto suppliers sell to all companies that make cars in the US.

> Who would be left then to use these assets? Some unnamed US automotive company?

Not necessarily - there are folks who could have afforded the assets. (Penske is a minor player and they made a serious bid for Saturn.)

Note that GM was selling cars for more money than it cost to make them - the problem was the legacy liabilities, liabilities which they'd have shed in ordinary bankruptcy.

The "bailout" money was a political payoff. It mainly went to keep the UAW pensions solvent and GM shut down Saturn as a sweetener. (The UAW always hated Saturn, even after organizing it.)
Those who know me will laugh to see me continuing to beat this dead horse, but this is a really great example of why ORM+scaffolding is an anti-pattern, by which I mean it seems like a good idea at first, but the costs outweigh the benefits.

It's absolutely true that you can use ORM and scaffolding patterns in a totally secure way. But the problem is that the defaults are insecure -- every table can be accessed, every record is available, every field can be edited, and the URLs for doing so are (deliberately) easily guessable.

One of the simplest and most fundamental rules of effective security is to close everything down by default and only open things up as required, after careful consideration. Scaffolding breaks that rule.
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>> Best way to learn git is in the command line (get away from any GUI).

I've used a lot of source control systems and the best always have a GUI and so guess what? I want a GUI unless the CLI for such system is inherently intuitive which if you read my comments I do not think git is intuitive at all.

>> I don't have to commit to my commits as long as my commits ain't public.

Huh?!?! I don't get that, it like makes no sense to me whatsoever. Why do you think I should even try to comprehend it?

>> Don't commit unless your ready to commit?

Are you suggesting I said or asked that??? Are you advising me? Seriously what?

>> Then that be hard to keep track of. Come time to commit you've got 50+ files modified good luck at doing decent commit messages.

Huh? I'm sorry is that English because it doesn't even make sense at all to me? Is it 50 lines changed all clearly related? Is it 50 totally different changes?
I came to pretty much the same conclusion, around here: "It was a failure to recognise that what distinguishes human brains from all other physical systems is qualitatively different from all other functionalities, and cannot be specified in the way that all other attributes of computer programs can be."
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The fundamentals of how our brain works, how thought is formed and followed, and critical thinking should be the primary things taught in school, from pre-K to college.

No matter what the profession, no matter what the passion, no matter what the skill, the brain is always involved. The better the foundational understanding on how our brain works, the more equipped we are to make better choices.

The mind/brain is possibly the last great frontier of mankind, one that will never see an end, (barring no apocalyptic crazy crap).

What's in your box of legos?
tagxt is home you commune with 'the internet'. you sign up and post words that get listed under the 'new' button listing.

other users can vote you up to the hot list or comment on your post or you can comment on others.

i just threw this out there looking for bugs. it's not meant to be marketed yet but, when it is, some guidance will be provided.

thanks for the input!
Well the data looks close enough to these theories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
Groupon has over 10,000 employees, roughly 2.5 times as many as Facebook, more than Bing or Google Search, and a good 1/3 as many as Google had pre-Motorola-acquisition.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGRPN

They claim to make a modest profit this quarter (if their earnings don't get restated), but they operated at a loss for every previous quarter:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGRPN&fstype=ii
If HN had a "bestof", I'd submit this.
Find/Replace "rails" with "Symfony" and you'll have the PHP equivalent. Also, "bundles" instead of "gems". This is why PHP negativity has been increasingly misguided for the past 2 years.
2-3 months ago I talked to LinkedIn's main lead, and he said that android is 80-90% native and only 10-20% HTML5.
Ask HN: What's your blogroll?
For when you want technical knowledge that HN might be lacking...
HTC One X+ vs. Samsung Galaxy S III
You want lenders making risky loans - that's where the growth and innovation comes from. Plus, risky loans are how poor people, companies, and countries make it.

Safety leads to narrow margins, and they're a serious problem. If you're running on a 10% margin, a 1% hickup is no big deal. If you're on a 1% margin, 1% wipes you out.

The housing bubble was a combination of regulation (insisting on subprime loans plus subsidies of fannie/freddie) and govt agencies screwing up everyone's risk assessment (fannie and freddie lied about their portfolio, so everyone's risk assessment models were broken).

College tuition lending is the same sort of disaster. Govt guarantees and (now) govt loans - what could possibly go wrong....
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What's a tortoise?
That does look like a malware site. It was a typo. Here's the correct URL:

http://prgmr.com/
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This Will Be Larry Ellison's Proving Year
I agree with you on the relative tolerance/perceptions of dodgy areas. I stayed at a hostel in the Tenderloin area in SF and found it to be pretty reasonable. Was a bit shady but compared to some of the areas where I grew up it was not too bad.
Thanks. I think this part describes why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause

The heliopause is the theoretical boundary where
the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar
medium; where the solar wind's strength is no longer
great enough to push back the stellar winds of the
surrounding stars.